A mysterious inscription sheds light on the issue of whether the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria was constructed over the ...

A newly examined Greek inscription uncovered inside Homs’ Great Mosque of al-Nuri is reopening an old argument with big implications: does the mosque sit directly over the long-lost Elagabalus Temple, ...

A study examines a Greek inscription discovered inside a mosque in Homs and its possible connection to the lost Temple of the Sun in Syria.

Excavations at the ancient city of Paestum in the province of Salerno have uncovered a wealth of well-preserved terracotta figurines offering insights into the religious and cultural life of the ...

Archaeologists excavating a 2,800-year-old temple at a sanctuary in Greece have uncovered several artifacts, including figurines of a dog, a woman and a snake, according to the Greek Ministry of ...

Archaeologists working near the coastal village of Samikon have unearthed a monumental temple complex in the Western Peloponnese. Researchers believe this site was dedicated to Poseidon, the powerful ...

The archaeological finds kept coming for a team of 50 researchers on the Greek island of Evia. But the kicker may have been locating 2,700-year-old altars full of precious jewels and historical ...

A researcher proposes that elements such as the frieze or the metopes are, in fact, the stone representation of the side of a war or merchant galley used as a roof. The hypothesis arises from a ...

ATHENS – Archaeologists excavating a hilltop sanctuary on the Aegean Sea island of Kythnos have discovered “countless” pottery offerings left by ancient worshippers over the centuries, Greece's ...

With the famed ruins of Pompeii looming large in people’s imaginations, many of Italy’s smaller and lesser-known ancient sites often are overlooked. One such place is Paestum, a long-ago Greek colony ...

Ancient Greeks were ahead of the curve in a lot of ways—including, it seems, issues of accessibility. A new archaeological study has found that stone ramps on some ancient buildings were likely built ...

Temples honoring Poseidon often became major religious centers. Pilgrims from across the Greek world brought offerings, and statues of the god stood tall inside these sacred spaces. Like other temples ...